Hyperstrike

Yep. If you wanna level fast, it's not hard at all.

Two Accs, Three Holds, One Intang. Cheap, simple, effective. Stuff has to SERIOUSLY outclass you to start hurting Singy.

Okay, I'm running a Grav/Kin at the moment (in his 40's and it took a lot less time than I thought).

The first 20 or so levels are kinda painful. This is sorta par for the course until your holds mature.

In the mid 20's your powers begin to gel quite nicely. You start being able to lock small down mobs quite effectively. And, once you get Singularity and slot it up, your effectiveness MORE than doubles.

Combine this with the buffs from /Kin and things get ugly REAAAAAL fast.

I can provide an SG base for you if you want. I'm still pretty much sitting on top of a base with a 5 million prestige grant (pre-i13) that has most of the teleporters (the city zones but no hazard/co-op zones).

I can recover a ton of it, as most of the base is still on very basic control and a turbine generator (carried over from live), and the plot size is ridiculously huge for what's in there right now.

***ADDENDUM

About half a million free at the moment. Sitting on a secure plot, all TP pads (but not all beacons) placed but had to break out into two control rooms to cover control for adding more TP beacons). If we can score the supercomputer, we can eliminate one of the control rooms and possibly drop back to a cheaper hidden plot.

Depending on how stupid you want to get, you can get an IO build that pushes 55.8 HP/Sec without IH.

WITH, you get 122.6 HP/Sec.

Just be careful you're not gimping your attacks to get this though.

Yes it would. But then you're taking up 10 of your precious market slots. All the time. Just to horde inf.

As with everything in life, there are tradeoffs.

Actually, missions provide a lot of XP. If you're expecting missions to level you twice or thrice a mission, the problem is not with the mission XP. The problem is with your unrealistic expectations.

The super-speed leveling of of pre-i16 AE was an anomaly.

No. Not really. I have several characters in their late teens and early 20's. All created since i16 dropped. In all but two cases, ZERO teaming went on. I even have a Stone/Fire brute at the moment who's LEVEL PACTED (so he's essentially earning half XP) who's already in his early 20's. L19-21 came in two nights, with L20 and L21 on the same night.

Okay, this plaint has been given many times for people who aren't trying hard to form teams. Simply standing around broadcasting "L# [INSERT AT HERE] LFT!" is a poor team-forming activity. Attempting to build or invite teams from /search is marginally better. But, by and far, the best way to do so is to start joining and participating in the global chat rooms for your server. Better still, augment it by friending and global-friending people you play with that you'd like to play with again. This way, when they're on, you can always ask if they want to team or have space.

The short answer. NO.
The longer answer. HELL NO.
A more complete and comprehensible answer. Farming never stopped and is still going now. Merely a subset of power levelling was culled because hardcore farmers no longer need fillers to push mobs up to 8-man teams.

Please, do NOT hold your breath for this. This is an ARGH (Ain't Really (or Realistically) Gonna Happen).

You have a several options open to you to speed up your levelling speed if you feel you're moving too slow, aside from attempting to find teams.

1: Bump the level of the enemies relative to you. Start at +1. If you're slaughtering them easily enough, try +2. Then +3. And so on.

2: Bump the number of heroes/villains you're equivallent to. This will bump the size of the spawns you fight. Default is, weirdly, equivallent to 0 heroes/villains. Bump it to 1 hero and test. Then bump to 2 and test.

3: Mark that you want to fight bosses. Bosses, while harder to fight, provide a fairly hefty XP bump over liutenants.

4: Any reasonable combination of the previous 3 solutions that you can handle.

Run right to the ragged edge of what you can realistically handle with the toon. It'll be more fun, and you'll be levelling quite fast (though not 3-20 times a mission).

If this answer is not acceptable to you, I'm sorry (well, not really, but it sounds nicer), but it's the best answer you're ever going to see for this.

Welcome to the game too! Make sure to hop in on Jello Shooters and Protector Watch if you're looking to team.

If you're not an "I hate Dell" guy, take a look at the Studio XPS 16.
2.13 Ghz (base) CPU
ATI Mobility Radeon 4670
6GB of RAM
True 16" 1920x1080 Screen
3 Year Warranty
Blue Ray optical
$1864 + shipping

If you want to step down from a Blue Ray optical to a standard DVD player, you could bump the CPU from the 2.13Ghz to a 2.8Ghz and the price'll be $1889.

That should fairly well stomp all over CoX.

I'd like to help. Unfortunately the time-frame isn't good for me (I get off work at 3PM CST exactly).

If we could jog this an hour later, I'd chuck a toon at this.

Hey there! Welcome to the game and Protector!

Sweet!

Unfortunately there's no built-in voice support. However, some players maintain Ventrillo or TeamSpeak servers for this. It's relatively inexpensive if people are sharing costs, but it takes a little bit of know-how to set up.

Recipies for IOs (Invention Origin) usually give slightly superior boosts to the various stats (comparative to even-level Dual Origin/Single Origin of the same level). Moreover, there are IO sets where you have an enhancement that boosts two (and sometimes three or four) attributes simultaneously. The only thing you can't do with them, that you can with Training, Dual, and Single Origin enhancers is combine/merge them. However, unlike those enhancers, these don't degrade as you out-level them.

Other inventions are things like temp powers to boost resistances, etc.

And I think the "short term power drops" you're thinking about are Inspirations. And yes, they're dead useful.

Hop into channels like Jello Shooters, Protector Watch, etc. This will get you introduced to groups of people who play together regularly. It'll enable you to get into more teams than you would simply by hoping someone is throwing together a pickup team. And, when all else fails, start your own.

I maintain subs to CoX and PoTCO. Almost never play PoTCO anymore, but I keep the sub.

Hey, it's a name. Could be worse. You could be Bob From Accounting.

Watch out for the sappers!

Oh wait...

NM...

Hold on. I'm going to fuzt with the code in your iron lung. Now I need to reboot...

No. It was 7-9 Central Time.
Now it's 6-8 Central Time.

Was playing a bit this morning and got the Admin blurb and went "HUH!?!?!?". Then I remembered the time change.

Not QUITE. Blue-side? Sure. Red-side? The Marshal Brass arc has a mission in there that is almost all shivans (just watch out for Professor Echo). Solo, it'd take several run/reset cycles. On an 8-man team? One or two runs.

If you remember his local handle, just do:

You can then gfriend if if he's online.

Same here. And I actually caught myself LEGITIMATELY using "I'm old enough to be your father." to to someone in their late teens and had to go wash my mouth out with hydrochloric acid.

Actually Indy. It's a function of (years*mileage). So while my actual age is still statistically low for our community here, due to the function, I'm physically equivalent to someone in their 60's and hating to think about what I'll feel like if I make it to 60 legitimately.

Okay, not to be a dick or anything.

And, as the OP stated, he'd moved his minions away from the BM to not be a nuisance. BUT...

Running Quills, Rocking the Aura, and FS on auto do NOT block access to the shadies in the market. Minions CAN.

I'd much rather put up with the thwack of Quills, an aura, or some doofus who forgot to turn off FS than have to try to wade my way through a sea of minions (who are unmoveable) to get at a the BM personnel because some MM was careless/thoughless/ignorant/etc.

Sorry, but the first thing Common Sense tells you is that it isn't...

Mine's been grabbing over 1.3GB of system memory pretty much since I started playing. Of course, my main machine has 8GB of RAM, so it's not noticeable, and my laptop has 4GB of RAM as well.

Considering I already have the original MOs on my main red and blue, and that the new MO TFs have been....flaky, I'm not too chuffed about not being able to zerg it.